Policy Analysis & Memos
Your DNA, Your Data: Preventing Genetic Discrimination in the Growing Bioeconomy
Argues for new federal legislation establishing biological information as a protected class, closing regulatory gaps that leave genetic and biological data vulnerable to exploitation while constraining bioeconomy growth.
Securing the U.S. Bioeconomy: A Managed Access Framework For Biotechnology Innovation
Proposes a managed access model for federal biological data repositories that harmonizes scientific openness with national security mandates.
Precision Medicine and The Price of Equity
Examines structural barriers in reimbursement, clinical trial diversity, and drug pricing that prevent precision medicine from delivering equitably, and proposes policy interventions to close the gap.
Forthcoming & In-progress
Global Capacity Building for Novel Gene-Editing Therapies: Challenges and Opportunities
Analyzes governance and capacity gaps that constrain equitable global access to gene-editing therapies, with implications for international biotech policy frameworks
Data Standards and Interoperability for Biofoundry Infrastructure
Examines data standards and interoperability challenges in biofoundry infrastructure and their implications for equitable access to engineering biology innovation.
Institutional contributions
RFI Responses
EBRC Response to OSTP RFI: Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise
Co-authored EBRC's formal response to OSTP, providing targeted recommendations on the federal government's role in advancing biotechnology. The response addresses funding structures for high-risk research, novel institutional models for scientific enterprise, and governance frameworks that enable open science without sacrificing national security considerations.
EBRC Response to DOE RFI: Partnerships for Transformational AI Models
Co-authored EBRC's formal response to the Department of Energy, arguing for a strategic role for the National Laboratory complex in anchoring U.S. AI leadership. The response addresses deployment risk governance, public-private partnership structures, and the intersection of AI capability development with biosecurity and engineering biology policy priorities.
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Supporting the U.S. Public Health Workforce
Recommends a standardized national framework for enumerating public health workers and new federal pipelines for recruiting diverse talent. — staff contribution
Extreme Weather Risk in a Changing Climate: Enhancing Prediction and Protecting Communities
Recommends a greenhouse gas monitoring and information system integrating satellite and ground-based data to guide decarbonization policy. — staff contribution
A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety
Recommends system-level interventions to reduce preventable patient harm across the U.S. healthcare system. — staff contribution
Commentary
The Federal Fight Against Obesity Needs More Access to GLP-1s
Argues that federal coverage and reimbursement frameworks must be modernized to make GLP-1 agonists accessible as a national obesity treatment tool.
California Should Use Green Infrastructure Funding to Employ Formerly-Incarcerated People
Argues that California's green infrastructure funding can be redirected to employ formerly incarcerated people, and that laws barring their hiring as firefighters should be reformed.